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Another list of events around the state to enjoy the Halloween season.

Miller’s Nightmare Haunted Farm: Lewisburg, a strange group of circus performers host this event, attractions are The Night Wagon, The Infected Crop, and The Demented Forest.

Lake Shawnee’s Dark Carnival: Rock, Friday and Saturdays, stroll around the lake and abandoned park, walk the Indian Burial Ground, go across the lake, hear stories around the campfire, see the Lake Nightmare: Hostel haunted attraction, ask about overnight stays.

Haunted School of Terror: Weirton, Barn attraction, Meet the Boogeyman, Hallowed Jack, and their friends. Open Friday and Saturday nights in October. Tickets are $15.

Zombie Run: Minden, ACE Adventure Resort, be a runner or zombie, October 28th.

The Haunted Coal Mine: Beckley, a fundraiser event for Theatre West Virginia. Fridays and Saturdays from 6pm to 10pm on a train.

Spooktacular! Festival: Tamarack, Beckley, they are selling locally grown pumpkins and holding a painted pumpkin contest for adults and children. Halloween movies in Theater October 22-28, Pumpkin Party on October 21st and October 28th, Strolling musician and spooky storytelling on October 22nd and October 29th, and Pumpkin Awards Scaremony on October 29th.

Halloween ComicFest: statewide, horror and Halloween themed free comics on October 25th. Check your local comic shop to see if they are participating and what they are doing. Also online Costume Contest on the site.

Fear on the Farm: Winfield, an extreme haunted experience, open Friday and Saturdays.

Crooked Letter Creative and the Astral Theatre Collective will be performing their new work “Carmilla” based on the horror classic by J. Sheridan LeFanu at the WVU Parkersburg theater at 8pm the same day. The show is $15.

Admission for the con is only $5 and children ten and under get in free with an adult.

Nice little some event with several different genres covered and people to see and meet.

Events for the con include Cartoon Theme Song Sing-A-Long Bingo, an anime theater, kids costume contest on Saturday and an adult one on Sunday, food vendors, Outer Rim Praxeum Lightsaber School demos, Paint Me Pokémon, and panels. Let’s Play All The Games are running retro video game tournaments on Saturday. Tournaments are Tecmo Super bowl, Tekken 3, and WWE Day of Reckoning 2, all are $5 to enter. Cartridges Galore are running tournaments of Smash Brothers Melee and Goldeneye on Sunday with a $10 entry fee. Pop-up tournaments are possible throughout the weekend plus open gaming areas for all. For tabletop gaming there will be Pathfinder Society of WV, games of Munchkin, and Magic: The Gathering tournaments.

The first Williamson Pop Culture and Entertainment Convention, Willcon, takes place this Saturday August 26th at the Williamson Field House in Williamson from 10am to 6pm. The event is put on by the Williamson Convention Visitor Bureau and meant to give the Tug Valley area an event to attract fans of all kind.

They will have a special exhibit from the art departments from local high schools and others. Plus several artists in attendance. Their line up of vendors will be selling video games and consoles, gaming supplies, comic books, graphic novels, board and card games, RPGs, toys, action figures, POPS, art, plush, jewelry, crochet items and other nerdy crafts, steampunk apparel, totes, and more.

The will have laser tag from Autannaco Family Fun Center, two escape rooms from Adventure Games, face painting, panels on anime and Game of Thrones, Pokémon Scavenger Hunt, cosplay contest, light saber battle demo, photo studio, music performances, writer’s workshop, and more. Table top gaming will be hosted by Play and Paint and include table game demos, gaming library, tournaments for Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Pokémon TCG. Mario Kart 8 and Smash Bros tournaments by Rare Drops.

Admission is just $5 and free for kids under 10.

Another small event with a little bit of all kinds of fandoms for everyone to enjoy.

There will be local and distant vendors selling comics (modern and key issues), graphic novels, manga, toys, sport cards, figures, collectibles, video games, buttons, perler beads, decals, custom boxes and plaques, board and card games, t-shirts, Gunpla, and so many other things for all nerds to look over. DZNuts and Cards will have a Professional Comic Grader on hand.

They will have panels on marketing comics and creating comics, a Q&A with Neil Kaplan, and Chris Yambar. There will also be a charity auction at 4:30pm to raise money for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and a cosplay contest at 5pm. They also have a coloring station for kids.

There will be a Drink & Draw Friday June 2nd at Sharkeys from 8pm to midnight with some of the con’s guests.

Tickets are only $10 and children ten and under get in free.

Looks like another good year for fans of comics, collectables, and those who just want to hang out.

The YWCA in Wheeling is holding their first Mini-Con this Saturday May 27th from noon to 5pm. The event will be on the 2nd floor.

Their big celebrity guest is Rob Garrison, a Wheeling native. He was in The Karate Kid and Karate Kid Part II as Cobra Kai member Tommy. Know for screaming “Get him a body bag! Yeah!” at the final tournament in the first movie.

The people of Clutch Gaming, Children’s Museum of the Ohio Valley, New Dimension’s Comics, We Are Roleplayers (W.A.R.), Pat Daugherty (Ohio Valley Batman), The Outer Rim Praxeum Lightsaber School, Fantasies Unraveled, and Kelci Crawford are all helping out with the event.

There will be an open discussion on “Women & Minorities in Comics” led by Dr. Jeremy Larance the Chair of the Department of Humanities and Associate Professor of English, Dr. Wally Hastings Associate Professor of English and Dr. Dominique Hoche Associate Professor of English. WAR will be running a demonstration on live action role-playing at 1pm and 2pm. They will have Kid’s Costume Contest for those 12 or younger at 4pm.

Admission is just a suggested donation, but come on give them a few bucks.

Of all the really small nerdy events I have seen people try to run, this looks like one of the most promising.

Located in the heart of downtown Wheeling at 1100 Chapline Street, the YWCA serves the community through its Family Violence Prevention, Cultural Diversity & Community Outreach, Women’s Boutique, Women Inspired In New Directions (W.I.N.D.) and Women’s Residence & Homeless Shelter

Saturday is Free Comic Book Day. I am tired and do not want to go over what that means. What comics are available. What shops and stores are participating and what they are doing to celebrate. Go search for yourselves, you will be happy you did.